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  1. TruffleShuffle
    And Molina isnt really that close to Soto in his offensive abilities. right, but nobody said that molina was as good as soto offensively. and soto's floor offensively is pretty close to molina's ceiling; i wouldn't get too cocky about soto being way better than molina offensively until we see that last year was not a complete fluke.
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    this is stupid.
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    a thread about bad gm's should also include this man: http://media.scout.com/Media/Image/18/181972.jpg
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    i do, to some extent. he can be a starting major league outfielder for an average or bad team; the cubs aspire to be better than that, and it's understandable if they regard him as a 4th outfielder. however, to regard a player like murton as a 4th outfielder, you have to develop some of your own low-priced talent unless you are a team like the yankees, and can afford big money players at each position. if you can develop some players who turn into above-average players at their positions (pie, soto hopefully) then a guy like murton is a 4th outfielder. if you can't, then you probably need to use a resource like murton as a starter, and direct your funds toward other positions of need.
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    i would just like to say that it would be completely idiotic for the o's to not trade brian roberts. he's not a big enough star to be a big draw at the gates. he's productive for the price that he's getting paid, and is not over the hill, so he would bring some pretty good value in a trade. and the o's are a horrible team in a division with the two highest payrolls in baseball, plus a pretty good toronto team and rapidly-improving tampa. they are going absolutely nowhere with roberts; best thing to do is put him on the table and take the best offer you get.
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    yeah but bush is the equivalent of cedeno's 2006 season. theriot is more like millard fillmore, just kinda meh.
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    agreed. cedeno makes too many fielding and baserunning mistakes, and in 2006 he was one of the worst hitters in baseball. the two guys have roughly the same amount of PAs in the majors; Theriot's big league EqA is .260 while Cedeno's is .214. that's right, .214. with theriot you know what you're going to get, and it's mediocrity, but it's not a complete black hole. cedeno could be a better player, but we've got more than a year of major league sample size to look at, and he's been far worse in that time. for a team that is in contention right now, i don't know if you have another year to see if he will sink or swim.
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    someone who is this athletic should be able to make it in SOMETHING. if not baseball then track and field or football or whatever.
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    molina is probably the best defensive catcher in baseball; soto is good but not really that close to molina behind the plate.
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    no, just stop making promises like that in the first place.
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    i could've told you that
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    No. It was a stupid short-term strategy, too, as there's a pretty strong correlation between high pitch counts in game A and poor performance in game B. plus prior did not have to throw as many innings or rack up the pitch counts he did. our bullpen wasn't bad that year, and there were numerous examples of dusty inexplicably leaving prior in when the cubs had a big lead. the cubs could've pitched prior that year without abusing him the way they did; dusty is completely incompetent, so it didn't happen the way it should have.
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    i think corey hart led the brewers in WARP last year... his name should not be a surprise. can't say i get the melky love, though.
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    I've finally had to turn the audio off completely. He is the most painfully boring broadcaster of any kind that I have ever heard in my life! have you ever watched a pirates game with their announcers? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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    i'll give him credit, i'm sure he doesn't really want to be out there with a tweaked hammy, but he probably knows that if he doesn't break camp with the big club, he might not be on a major league roster this year. i don't really want him on the team, but he seems to really be trying.
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    thankfully the cubs seem to be wise enough to look past hart's 7.59 ERA and realize that he's thrown the ball pretty well this spring. i think every baserunner he's allowed has come around to score.
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    bynum's the front-runner for the SS job, from what i've read. pagan likewise for the LF job in NY. God baltimore is going to be horrible. bynum should not start at any position for any major league team.
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    language barrier. bring back wendell kim. (actually i'm pretty sure he's korean, so that wouldn't work) i love late spring training games, you've got that weird mix of veterans getting in some extra work, and random guys who won't play a game above A-ball this year.
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    can i change my vote to kent mercker?
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    steve stone didn't ruin a future hall of fame pitcher.
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    i resent dusty for a lot of things, but his ruining of mark prior makes me far more angry than anything else he did. we had a future hall of fame pitcher, a guy who could've mentioned in the same breath as roger clemens as the best pitcher as the best pitcher of a generation, and dusty drove him into the ground. thank God he's gone, but i feel bad for the arms on the reds that he will systematically ruin.
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    i like him, but his breaking stuff is mediocre and from what i understand, he doesn't have much of a change. since he survives on the cutter, it's probably best that he's in the pen. still, a good return on a worthless player like freddie bynum.
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    plus soriano is supposedly having leg issues, and fukudome had season-ended elbow surgery. murton is a very good insurance policy; there's no reason to give him away just because we have some outfield depth now.
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    Huh? What's the sample size issue? I made a lot of statements in there. Which one was based on a bad sample size? what's BS about it? some guys simply don't hit same-handed pitching as well as they hit opposite-handed pitching. see jock jones as a good example, and his sample size is huge.
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    i forgot about hamilton :x but like dobson said, i'm not too upset about ankiel. pecota has him hitting 30 homers this year, which can happen if his plate discipline doesn't result in pitchers just throwing him bad balls and watching him chase them. i thought chase utley was insane in group d. i'm shocked that some people did not pick him.
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